Places In The World Quotes - Page 12

• When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself

  Natalie Portman

  Views, World, Realizing

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• What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

  Charles Dickens

  Paris, World, Made

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.136, Oxford University Press

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• There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Home, Two, Paris

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• San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

  Robert Redford

  Beautiful, Cities, San Francisco

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• I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

  Amanda Palmer

  Trying, World, Belief

  "Sting mixes politics, passion", www.cnn.com. October 9, 2003.

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• God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.

  Marcus Garvey

  Godly, Thinking, Creating

  Marcus Garvey (2006). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945”, p.366, Univ of California Press

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• It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.

  Quincy Jones

  Mean, Cities, Water

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Perspective, World

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

  Paul Robeson

  Thinking, Helping Others, Long

  "The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson". Book by Susan Robeson, p. 72, 1981.

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• We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Numbness, Identity, World

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

  Richard E. Byrd

  America, Peaceful, World

  The Oakland Tribune, November 26, 1955.

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• Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning. Philosophy, when practiced well, can be useful. It can enable us to grapple in productive ways with questions about the meaning of life and who I am and how I want to be in the world.

  Peg O'Connor

  Philosophy, Self, Who I Am

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mean, Divorce, Hollywood

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• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Fall, Unforgivable Sin, America

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Rendezvous”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.

  Nella Larsen

  New York, World, Knows

  Nella Larsen (2014). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.48, Serpent's Tail

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• External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.

  Amy Tan

  Responsibility, Unique, People

  American Acheivement interview, June 28, 1996.

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• Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

  Fanny Kemble

  Happiness, Rome, World

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• When you have kids it's nice to have a place where they can always return to and some place where they will grow up in, but I never had that. I'm not attached to things and places. I like that we [the family] keep moving. It's a nomadic life, and I think that's a great life. I'm excited when we take our kids to a new country and they don't just immediately look for the comforts of home. They blend into that country. Send them to any place in the world and they won't be scared. They'll just feel like they can make friends there.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Growing Up, Nice

  "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

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• I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.

  Steve Earle

  Stars, Sorry, Nice

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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